That evening like each evening, the witness smoked his pipe in front of his window when he saw a round object, rather slightly luminous and motionless in the sky.

He first looked at it for a while, amazed and the pipe in the hand, then, while noting that it did not move, he looked at the passers by in the street and noted that none was looking up, and that the extraordinary display went completely unnoticed.

The witness saw an occasion to study the behavior of the crowd, he took his pipe, went down in the street and walked a few minutes while keeping a survey of the object, which was still there. He noted that nobody raised the eyes towards the sky, and that thus nobody noticed anything.

After a while the witness returned at his place, closed his window and "peacefully finished his pipe while meditating on the stupid vanity of the men."

Loren Gross says that in Paris on September 22, 1954, near the Champ de Mars, a writer spotted a mysterious ball of light hovering high in tHe sky. As an experiment, the intellectual walked the streets to study the curiously of the typical Parisian. No one seemed to pay any heed to the motionless spot in the heavens.

He adds:

September 23rd.

The writer who had seen a UFO above Paris the day before, marveling at the indifference of the street crowds, contacted UFO researcher Aime Michel to express his feelings. His message was not very encouraging. Addressing Michel, he said:"Your curiosity is powerless, and therefore just a futile as other's people's indifference." 105.

The "105" source is given as: "Michel, Aime. Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, p 67"

Notes:

I am close to betting my shirt that the witness, writer "M.C.", was Louis Couturier, poet and surrealistic writer who used the pseudonym Michel Carrouges, resided there at this time and later wrote a rather remarkable book on the subject of the flying saucers, "Les apparitions de Martiens," in which the reflexion on the psychological circumstances of the sightings is in good place.

Explanations:

Not looked for yet. Seen object description is fully compatible with that of a weather balloon.

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